Improvement in clothes-frames



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo PETER CAMERON, OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-FRAMES..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,156, dated February 23, 1875; application led January 19, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER CAMERON, of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented an Improvement in Glothes-Driers, of which the following is a specication:

The object of my invention is to .furnish a clothes-rack, which will ai'ord a large amount of dryingspace While it can be compactly folded against the wall while not in use.

The invention consists in two rack-frames composed of horizontal bars secured to and across standards, which are secured together at the tops and to two supporting-standards by peculiar sliding joints, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure l is a perspective view of my drier extended for use. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same folded up. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section.

In the drawing, A A represent two bars or standards, connected at the top by a girt, A. B B are two upright bars, across which are secured several parallel horizontal bars, O, forming a drying-frame,the fabrics being supported by the horizontalbars. A similar dryingframe is made of vertical bars Bl and horizontal bars C. A wire staple, a, projects back from the upper inner end of each bar B, and engages with a long wire loop, b, let into a vertical groove in the face of each har A near the top. The frame B C is secured to the frame B C in like manner. rIhe bars A and B are connected by links o, and the bars B and B by similar links c', which allow the several bars to be spread a given distance apart.

The bars B B', when the drier is folded up,

are pushed up as far as their connections will Y allow. The bars B are longer than either the bars A or B', so that when the frames are spread apart the several standards will be inclined backward, as seen in Fig. l, while the links c c brace the frames apart.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-' The combination of the bars A B B C C', staples a, loops b, and links o c', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

PETER CAMERON.

Witnesses:

ALBERT KRIPPENE, M. J HACKETT. 

